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Social Media

CJN 389/CJN 691

Gloria Boone

Summer I 2011

R415 MW 5:30-8:10

Office R405

Office Hours: 4-5:30 MW

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn the concepts of social media.

2. Examine how social media is used in marketing, public relations and advertising

3. Use a variety of social media tools, techniques and platforms.

4. Brand yourself on social media.

5. Perform a social media audit.

6. Create a blog.

7. Describe and apply social media theory in a paper, podcast or video.

Syllabus

M 5/16 Introduction to Social Media

Social Media v. Traditional Media

About me and Google Profiles

Twitter and Twitter notes

Class Blog

Assignments: Set- up a twitter account, follow 10- 20 people by next class, set up your own blog . Follow and reply to http://socialmediasuffolk.blogspot.com, set-up about me, and reply to some other people.

W 5/18 Blogs, blog history, blog set-up

What happened to MySpace & Frienster?

boyd, danah, and Ellison, Nicole. (2007). Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. JCMC, 13 (1). [Special Issue of JCMC on Social Network Sites, Eds.: danah boyd and Nicole Ellison.]

M 5/23 Facebook, Facebook apps, Facebook Notes

Twitter for business notes

W 5/25 Social Media Audit

M 5/30 Memorial Day Holiday

W 6/1 You Tube, Vimeo, Video in Social Media, Wikipedia, wikis, PBworks

Posterous launches small business email marketing tool

M 6/6 Linked In notes , Linked In Slideshare, Join.me

Sentiment Analysis & Meaning

Photos on the web and Music

Path

W 6/8 Location-based services

M 6/13 Social media audit presentations.

W 6/15 Politics

Digg

e-Commons

Social Tagging and Folksonomics

M 6/20 So you say you want a revolution?

W 6/22 Education and Publishing

Horizon Report 2011

Augmented Reality, Game-Based Learning, Gesture-Based Computing,

and Learning Analytics

Quora

M 6/27 Health and what is next?

W 6/29 Presentations

Assignments:

Brand Yourself - your profile online (ongoing) 50 points.

Establish a Twitter account and follow GMBoone and other students. (ongoing) 50 points.

Add to CJN Facebook (ongoing) 50 points.

Try out some of the SNS mentioned in class.(ongoing) Just because you should.

Blog (reactions to readings, videos, news...) (ongoing. Do 10 posts) 100 points.

Social Media Audit- pick one company / person and monitor their activities (due 6/13) 100 points.

Add to Social Media Company Directory (by 6/27) 50 points

Presentation/ Paper or Podcast or Video (Due 6/29) 100 points.

 

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Resources

Social Media Class -Gloria Boone

Social Media

The Social Path

PR

Ragan's PR Daily News

Share

Posterous

Research

 

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